Duterte seeks more funds for COVID-19 response as P270B ‘not enough’

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Duterte seeks more funds for COVID-19 response as P270B ‘not enough’
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President Rodrigo Duterte asked Finance Secretary Carlos “Sonny” Dominguez III on Monday evening to look for more sources of funds, saying that the P270-billion budget the government had set aside for COVID-19 response was “not enough.” COVID19PH

In a televised address, he noted that P100 billion for one month or P 270 billion for two months was not enough.“I’m calling on Secretary of Finance to generate [more],” Duterte said in a televised public address.

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